You mean importing it from Brazil, then sending it back to Brazil? It'd be cheaper (and a much getter gift) to get him a Dreamcast, and a CD with a ton of SMS ROMs+emulator! Obligatory link... DC Emulation
Or just send him the money and tell him to get an used Dreamcast, they're pretty cheap 'round here.
No shit. A bit of exaggeration, maybe. Still, Phantasy Star is the best RPG on an 8-bit console, ever. It can actually be said that it was the first modern console RPG - and it remains (unlike early Final Fantasy games) a graphically impressive, immensely enjoyable and profound game.
Sega's Phantasy Star Online has the best approach for money, items, and cooperative play:
- It has a strict limit to the amount of items one can have and store.
- The in-game shops never sell the best armors and weapons, you have to fight to get them.
- On the other hand, decent items are not hard to get, and even the rarest ones are nothing out of this world.
- Players can't hurt each other, making sure high-level assholes would not slay and loot newbies.
- Only four players per game.
- It is an action RPG.
Consequences:
- As amassing craploads of money and items is nearly useless, veterans usually give away money and really good items to the newbies.
- As acceptable items are not that hard to get, spending real money in them is pointless.
- Players actually cooperate to beat the game (oh, and it does not take a lifetime to beat).
- It's not an ultra-boring click-click-click crapfest, a la Diablo.
I recall reading about it on EGM a loooong time ago... some british store sold the ultimate Sega Game Gear mod: the case was made of gold and covered with diamonds.
It depends on the games on which you work. That is: your art may be great, but if the game is nothing special for me, I'm not likely to get the book. Also, structures and devices don't mean much to me, it has to have -character- design!
Me, I'd like to get a Sega art book - because I love their games, and they have some awesome character design.
Indeed, it made some money. But there was so much bad buzz around it, everyone went to the theatre, not to see a movie, but to take a peek at the train wreck! How many people have left the theathre thinking about getting a Waterworld game? The movie was a bore-fest!
As Japan refused to surrender, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki eliminated the need for an invasion of Japan, which would have cost many more lives - for both sides.
: it'll be hard to condemn the statue of David as an evil : pornographic thing, considering its based on the bible
Definitely not pornographic, but one can consider the Bible evil! It has some extremely violent parts, you know... but the really funny thing is: David's statue is not too faithful to the Bible, as it actually fits the greek ideal of beauty.
Take a look at his genitals. David - a jew - is NOT CIRCUMCISED. I think Michelangelo did not give a damn about the Bible then, he simply tried to make it the apex of human male beauty. And he followed the ideals of the Greek, who (correctly) saw the circumcised body as mutilated and sexually inferior.
Shittier sound? That's because you haven't played in a japanese Master System! They had an extra FM sound chip (YM2413), and games that used it had much better music. Try R-Type with an emulator that supports the chip, and you will know what I'm talking about.
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There was no "porting" in Sega's Smash Pack, the games were just emulated. Unlike, I believe, the arcades in Shenmue.
You mean importing it from Brazil, then sending it back to Brazil? It'd be cheaper (and a much getter gift) to get him a Dreamcast, and a CD with a ton of SMS ROMs+emulator! Obligatory link... DC Emulation
Or just send him the money and tell him to get an used Dreamcast, they're pretty cheap 'round here.
And don't forget Duke Nukem 3D for the Genesis! It looked about as good as Doom for SNES - but with no extra chips.
No, it's just that TecToy has never stopped manufacturing the Mega Drive (Genesis) and the Master System.
It that one like this ?
I'd pick Headhunter over MGS any time.
No shit. A bit of exaggeration, maybe. Still, Phantasy Star is the best RPG on an 8-bit console, ever. It can actually be said that it was the first modern console RPG - and it remains (unlike early Final Fantasy games) a graphically impressive, immensely enjoyable and profound game.
Sega's Phantasy Star Online has the best approach for money, items, and cooperative play:
- It has a strict limit to the amount of items one can have and store.
- The in-game shops never sell the best armors and weapons, you have to fight to get them.
- On the other hand, decent items are not hard to get, and even the rarest ones are nothing out of this world.
- Players can't hurt each other, making sure high-level assholes would not slay and loot newbies.
- Only four players per game.
- It is an action RPG.
Consequences:
- As amassing craploads of money and items is nearly useless, veterans usually give away money and really good items to the newbies.
- As acceptable items are not that hard to get, spending real money in them is pointless.
- Players actually cooperate to beat the game (oh, and it does not take a lifetime to beat).
- It's not an ultra-boring click-click-click crapfest, a la Diablo.
Goddamnit, Naka! Get your lazy ass off your comfy chair and go bring NiGHTS back from the limbo where you left him since 1996! >:(
AM2's Propeller Arena for the Sega Dreamcast.
But the japanese Street Fighter animated movie was really good, as well as the animated series (Street Fighter Victory, NOT the other one).
I never expected. I mean, gold and diamonds! Anyone who has bought one of these back then is certainly not the kind who would ever need to sell it.
In Soviet Russia, Mary-Kate and Ashley lust after YOU!
"I honestly do not know anyone that owns a gamecube. Most people I know have PS2 systems or nothing at all."
This is called the Pauline Kael syndrome. "Nobody I know voted for Nixon, so how could McGovern have lost?"
I recall reading about it on EGM a loooong time ago... some british store sold the ultimate Sega Game Gear mod: the case was made of gold and covered with diamonds.
It depends on the games on which you work. That is: your art may be great, but if the game is nothing special for me, I'm not likely to get the book. Also, structures and devices don't mean much to me, it has to have -character- design!
Me, I'd like to get a Sega art book - because I love their games, and they have some awesome character design.
I got a pirated copy of Half-Life for the Dreamcast! SO SUE ME, BITCH!
Fucktard.
Indeed, it made some money. But there was so much bad buzz around it, everyone went to the theatre, not to see a movie, but to take a peek at the train wreck! How many people have left the theathre thinking about getting a Waterworld game? The movie was a bore-fest!
(by the way, the Waterworld game sucked too...)
As Japan refused to surrender, nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki eliminated the need for an invasion of Japan, which would have cost many more lives - for both sides.
...the Tapwave Zodiac . Not only it's a decent game machine, it's a nice PDA too!
PSP, you ask? No way in hell I'd buy anything by Sony!
The french actor is Jean Reno.
: it'll be hard to condemn the statue of David as an evil
: pornographic thing, considering its based on the bible
Definitely not pornographic, but one can consider the Bible evil! It has some extremely violent parts, you know... but the really funny thing is: David's statue is not too faithful to the Bible, as it actually fits the greek ideal of beauty.
Take a look at his genitals. David - a jew - is NOT CIRCUMCISED. I think Michelangelo did not give a damn about the Bible then, he simply tried to make it the apex of human male beauty. And he followed the ideals of the Greek, who (correctly) saw the circumcised body as mutilated and sexually inferior.
Oh, please. Mortal Kombat has always sucked.
Pac Man is japanese.
Shittier sound? That's because you haven't played in a japanese Master System! They had an extra FM sound chip (YM2413), and games that used it had much better music. Try R-Type with an emulator that supports the chip, and you will know what I'm talking about.